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V/H/S/2

2013 US HMDB
junio 6, 2013

Secuela de V/H/S (2012). Buscando a un estudiante desaparecido, dos investigadores privados irrumpen en su casa y encuentran una colección de cintas VHS. Cuando ven los horribles contenidos cada casete, se dan cuenta que puede haber motivos oscuros detrás de la desaparición del estudiante.

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Produccion: Kyle David Crosby (Producer)Robin Cowie (Executive Producer)Rob Cotterill (Producer)Simon Barrett (Executive Producer)Gary Binkow (Producer)Tom Owen (Executive Producer)Adam Wingard (Executive Producer)Kimo Stamboel (Producer)Roxanne Benjamin (Producer)Chris Harding (Producer)Rangga Maya Barack-Evans (Executive Producer)Zak Zeman (Executive Producer)Adam Jenkins (Executive Producer)Brad Miska (Producer)Jamie Nash (Producer)
Guion: Gareth Evans (Writer)Timo Tjahjanto (Story)Jason Eisener (Writer)John Davies (Writer)
Musica: Aria Prayogi (Original Music Composer)Fajar Yuskemal (Original Music Composer)James Guymon (Original Music Composer)Steve Moore (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Tarin Anderson (Director of Photography)Seamus Tierney (Director of Photography)Abdul Dermawan Habir (Director of Photography)Jeff Wheaton (Director of Photography)Stephen Scott (Director of Photography)

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Roberto Giacomelli
Dos investigadores privados están investigando la desaparición de un estudiante. Después de colarse en su casa, encuentran una multitud de videocintas. Así, mientras uno va a explorar la casa, el otro comienza a ver el contenido de los VHS. Primera VHS. Un hombre sufre una operación quirúrgica experimental tras un accidente. Le colocan un ojo biónico, pero además de la vista normal, el hombre adquiere la capacidad de percibir las presencias ultraterrenas que lo rodean. Segunda VHS. Un motociclista está haciendo una excursión en un parque, pero es atacado por lo que parece ser un muerto viviente. A partir de ese momento, el motociclista se transforma a su vez en un zombi en busca de carne viva. Tercera VHS. Un equipo de televisión logra concertar una entrevista exclusiva en un edificio donde se encuentra la sede de una misteriosa secta indonesia. Mientras el periodista está entrevistando al gurú de la secta, literalmente el infierno se desata en el edificio. Cuarta VHS. Una chica, su hermanito, su novio y los amigos de él están pasando una buena noche en casa. En medio de una fiesta improvisada, algo extraño e inquietante ocurre: un apagón seguido de ruidos molestos y figuras extrañas logran colarse en la casa: ¡una invasión alienígena está en marcha! Tras el buen éxito obtenido por "V/H/S" en 2012, gracias sobre todo al boca a boca en la web, Brad Miska, jefe del famoso portal web dedicado al cine de terror BloodyDisgusting.com, intenta la carta del sequel. Mismas estructura de episodios, misma técnica del mockumentary y un director confirmado, Adam Wingard, para una continuación que por diversas razones logra superar el prototipo. El cine de episodios y la técnica del mockumentary se han convertido en los territorios predilectos del panorama de terror low budget e independiente, por lo que la proliferación de películas de este tipo está empañando el halo de novedad que inicialmente envolvía a estas producciones experimentales. La relativa "novedad" que podía estar detrás de "V/H/S" ha desaparecido en este segundo capítulo, vista también la reproducción al pie de la letra del film original. Sin embargo, en "V/H/S 2" se percibe una mejora, un ajuste en algunas cuestiones que habían convencido menos en la película anterior. En primer lugar, hay una mayor calidad general de los episodios, que al convertirse en cuatro (más el marco), hacen que el film sea más fluido y compacto. Se comienza exactamente igual que en el anterior, es decir, con un marco que pueda justificar y unir entre sí las historias que vemos. "Tape 49", este es el título, lleva la firma de Simon Barrett, ya autor de los guiones de "Dead Birds – La casa maldita", "Frankenfish – Peces mutantes", "You’re Next" y de un segmento del primer "V/H/S". En este caso, sin destacar particularmente por técnica e inventiva, el marco parece tener una mayor función narrativa dentro de la obra, captando con mayor eficacia la tradición del mockumentary de matriz sobrenatural. El primer episodio, "Phase 1: Clinical Trails" es el peor del cuarteto ya que recuerda de manera sospechosa un episodio de la primera temporada del serial antológico "Black Mirror", que a su vez recordaba de manera igualmente sospechosa el episodio dirigido por Tobe Hooper de "Body Bags". Lo dirige Adam Wingard, director de "You’re Next", que tiene justo la buena intuición de justificar el POV mostrándolo como un video subjetivo innatural del ojo biónico del protagonista, que por cierto es interpretado por el mismo director. Por lo demás, se abundan en presencias fantasmales en la casa que recuerdan demasiado a mil otras películas vistas en los últimos años, sin lograr nunca ni asustar ni involucrar. El segundo episodio, "A Ride in the Park", lleva la firma de Eduardo Sánchez, famoso por ser parte del dúo de "The Blair Witch Project" y por haber dirigido los notables "Altered" y "Lovely Molly". Este episodio es muy interesante porque logra encontrar un punto de vista interesante sobre la tema muy explotada de los zombis. La novedad está en mostrar toda la película desde la subjetiva de un zombi. O mejor, de un pobre tipo que es atacado por un zombi, muere y resucita, transformándose en un muerto viviente a su vez. Seguimos al protagonista en su frenético vagabundeo y en su caza, que culmina en un verdadero baño de sangre. Innovador y divertido. El tercer episodio, "Safe Haven", es el verdadero flechazo de la película. Al timón tenemos al inglés Gareth Evans, que saltó a la fama con el estupendo acción indonesio "The Raid", con el cual este episodio de "V/H/S 2" tiene varios puntos en común. Aquí toda la acción se desarrolla en un condominio, pero esta vez no tenemos un avispero de criminales expertos en artes marciales, sino una secta que juega con el Diablo y que alberga en su interior demonios monstruosos y sanguinarios. Este episodio, que también es el más largo de los cuatro, tiene una acción frenética que lo hace fácilmente reconocible por la mano de Evans y logra precipitarse en el delirio más absoluto, con criaturas monstruosas y splatter a niveles increíblemente altos, con personas que explotan y desmembramientos. ¡Por sí solo vale toda la película! Para concluir, hay otro episodio digno de mención, "Slumber Party Alien Abduction", de Jason Eisener, es decir, el director del loco "Hobo with a Shotgun". Aquí se combina el horror adolescente con la película sobre secuestros alienígenas con una rara eficacia que lleva a momentos realmente ricos en tensión. Aquí también el ritmo es frenético, con una primera parte centrada en las travesuras de los chicos que celebran en casa y una segunda con la llegada de inquietantes "grises" que son anunciados por un molesto estruendo. La mayor novedad está en la subjetiva, que es la del perrito de la casa, sobre el que uno de los chicos ha montado al inicio de la película una videocámara. ¡Nada mal de verdad! En resumen, "V/H/S 2" es un sequel de calidad, tiene el límite de reproducir de la misma manera las ideas que ya estaban detrás de la primera película, pero al mismo tiempo logra corregir el rumbo con mayor compactibilidad y una mayor calidad general de los episodios… luego está el firmado por Evans que por sí solo hace que esta película sea absolutamente recomendable. Añadid media calabaza.
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Are you just about done with the anthology horror mini-revival? Sick to death of cinéma vérité? Well... I was about to say, "Move along, then; there's nothing for you here," but that wouldn't be fair on this movie OR you. If you're through with first-person perspective found-footage portmanteau horrors then fine, but just stay for one more. Please? Because it's a belter, this one.

Last year's V/H/S was IMO terrific, but it had its flaws. The wraparound story and the first story proper gave the movie a disturbing early feeling of misogyny thanks to both stories' protagonists having sexual gratification of one manner or another as their principal reason for filming their actions, the film's running time struggled to cope with six tales being told, and the shaky first-person cameras were the shakiest of shaky, nausea-inducing cameras in the history of the first-person perspective. Thankfully for the sequel, nobody's shooting footage for the sake of amateur pornography (an early tit-shot establishes our wraparound-segment protagonist as a private investigator, but that's it until some much lighter, more jocular sex-filming exchanges in the last segment, of which more later), V/H/S/2 is telling five stories in all rather than six (hopefully by V/H/S/3 they'll have learned a further lesson: The wraparound stories are completely redundant, so let's ditch 'em), and that extra time is put to good use, and the shaky-cam... it's still there of course - goes hand-in-hand with the territory - but it's just nowhere near as bad. For the most part.

So, to the stories themselves:

"Tape 49" - The wraparound segment, directed by Simon Barrett (who wrote the wraparound segment for V/H/S - "Tape 56" - as well as the segment "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Younger" for that earlier movie; he also wrote You're Next and the IMO excellent horror/western Dead Birds). Concerning a private eye and his partner on the trail of a missing student, they come across a house not unlike the one in the first picture, full of not much but stacks of old switched-on CRT televisions and VHS cassette players, and even larger stacks of VHS tapes themselves. They find a laptop with footage of the missing boy, sitting in that very room and explaining about how watching some of these VHS tapes in a certain order will... affect people. Quite how, I'll not say. Suffice to say though that while our private dick searches the house, his partner sits and watches the tapes (these are the four segments making up the main body of V/H/S/2), and trouble abounds. It's a big upgrade on the unlikeable wraparound from the first movie but it's still largely unnecessary and despite some good horror action towards the very end, it made little sense and was subsequently by virtue of its nature the weakest tale of the lot.

Segment 1. "Phase I Clinical Trials" - Directed by Adam Wingard (You're Next, V/H/S segment "Tape 56", The ABCs of Death segment "Q is for Quack"), this is a fairly straightforward and derivative piece (The Sixth Sense? The Eye?) about a guy who, following an eye operation to replace his blind right eye with an experimental electronic eye which for the purposes of data collection records everything it "sees" (a fairly ingenious if slightly laboured use of the first-person perspective I thought, also neatly sidestepping the thorny "Why are they still FILMING?!?" issue that besets all of these sorts of films), starts seeing - you guessed it - dead people. Nothing original to see here in terms of the story, but Wingard's ever-improving directional skills keep the tension levels up and interesting throughout. Not an especially strong start, but a decent start.

Segment 2. "A Ride in the Park" - Co-directed by the criminally-underrated Eduardo Sánchez (yes, him. Co-director of found-footage great-grandaddy The Blair Witch Project; also did the absolutely fantastic Altered, plus Seventh Moon and Lovely Molly) and his long-time producer buddy Gregg Hale, and co-written by Sánchez and his long-time writing partner Jamie Nash, this one came with heavy expectations and it didn't disappoint at all. A cracking flat-out zombie fest filmed almost entirely from the perspective of a cyclist's helmet-mounted Go-Pro camera. Our - hero? - Mike takes his bike out for a lovely early-morning spin through the park and is immediately attacked and bitten by a zombie, one of several ambling through these woods. He escapes, runs away, staggers, falters, drops to the floor and dies. Then he gets up. From there on in it's a zombie's-eye view of the carnage and gore, finishing with a flourish on a surprisingly touching note. For zombies, like. Excellent short story. Probably the best segment not only of this movie so far (it's certainly that) but of the V/H/S franchise so far.

Until...

Segment 3. "Safe Haven" - Another strong directorial collaboration here, this time between Gareth Huw Evans (The Raid) and Timo Tjahjanto (The ABCs of Death segment "L is for Libido"). Taking up 30 minutes of V/H/S/2's entire runtime (and worth every second), Safe haven concerns a documentary news crew who - using both conventional professional cameras and mics plus hidden "button"-cams - go to film the shenanigans at a remote Indonesian compound, in which is housed a "Heaven's Gate"-style Doomsday cult comprised of their enigmatic leader - The Father - his "family" of wives/lovers and (many) children plus other assorted cult members. It is implied that "The Father" is promoting and engaging in underage sex with some of the members, and it's this angle the news crew most want to pursue. They end up however with something very different.

Managing to look and feel like an exquisite blend of the co-directors' other works The Raid and "L is for Libido" with a good dollop of Doom 3 or some other survival horror game thrown in for good measure, this short represents the best thing that either V/H/S movie has offered us thus far. It's creepy, then it's tense, then it's frantic and as gory as gore gets (all justifiably and within the context of a good tale well told, I might add). If there's a teeny-tiny criticism it could be that a practical visual effect at the very very end of the short (you'll know it when you see it) doesn't quite work and against the otherwise staggering look of all that preceded it, it's quite jarring. However, I'm nitpicking. "Safe Haven" is a superior piece and with a few dollars thrown at it could make an excellent and terrifying expanded movie in its own right.

Segment 4. "Slumber Party Alien Abduction" - directed by Jason Eisener (Hobo With a Shotgun, The ABCs of Death segment "Y is for Youngbuck"). Eisener seems to be a bit of a "love him or loathe him" director. I WANT to like him but I find his output as frustrating as it is novel, and this is no exception. Essentially, a bunch of kids of varying ages have free reign over their lakeside house, and fill their time with happy, video-based tomfoolery including strapping a camera to their dog to see what he films, blasting one another with urine-filled water guns and busting in on one anothers' "intimate" time, be that one of the girls with her boyfriend or one of the doofus young teenagers with his hand, a porno and some time to kill. So far, so goofy. Until a violent attack by a band of hostile classic "Grey" aliens kicks off. It's a good idea and the story itself is fine, but this is the one short in the pack that continues to suffer badly from the first movie's shaky-cam syndrome. Once the action starts, you'll struggle to see what's happening. Good stuff, but frustrating. And coming as it does after two truly excellent segments, just a trifle deflating.

So, segments 1 and 4 are of a standard comparable to the first movie, the wraparound piece is an improvement, but the middle two shorts are worth the ticket money on their own and elevate V/H/S/2 above its older sibling and above much of today's horror fare in general. Well recommended.

Gimly

Gimly

5 /10

In the past I have only ever reviewed anthology films as a whole, and by-and-large that's probably what I'll go back to doing in the future, but having just watched the last three quarters of the original V/H/S, then V/H/S/2 and V/H/S: Viral all in one sitting, it all sort of bleeds together and I mostly can't remember which one belongs where, so at least for now, I'm gonna try giving some very, very short reviews for each segment, rather than the overall films.

Tape 49: The framing device. These were always the silliest part of the franchise. It doesn't work very well as a jumping off point, and it doesn't work at all as a self-contained narrative.

Phase I Clinical Trials: Much better stuff from Adam Wingard, has some of the intensity found in the first V/H/S. One of the shorts I think would best translate to a full feature. Could benefit from some better acting though (could be said of all the segments, and isn't a deal breaker for me).

A Ride in the Park: Really just one thing going on here, but that's fine for a short film that's just one part of an anthology. A first-person zombie movie shot from the perspective of the zombie is a pretty dope idea. Could have commited to the formula harder, preferably, but the way it is shot I guess makes sense in terms of the larger V/H/S narrative.

Safe Haven: The best of what V/H/S/2 has on offer. Not perfect, and unexpectedly made me bring out my glasses to read the subtitles, which I guess arguably clashes with not only the other segments but indeed the "Found Footage" idea overall. Still, solid entry.

Slumber Party Alien Abduction: Probably the weakest. Weird choice to go out on. Tries to have fun but unfortunately just doesn't have the time to carry that idea to fruition before the desperate scramble for the "horror" in this found footage horror short.

Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

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